Bid evaluation and selection in the magnet automated contracting system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1571, Issue , 1999, Pages 105-125

  Steinmetz, Erik ^a   Collins, John ^a   Jamison, Scott ^a   Sundareswara, Rashmi ^a   Mobasher, Bamshad ^a   Gini, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CONTRACTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC TRADING; MAGNETS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SALES;

ANY-TIME ALGORITHMS; BID EVALUATION; CUSTOMER AGENT; MAGNET SYSTEMS; MARKET INFRASTRUCTURE; MULTI AGENT; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; SUPPLIER AGENTS;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 22644452561     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48835-9_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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